Rep. Kay Granger, R-Fort Worth, said Tuesday that she hasn't ruled out running for the U.S. Senate if Republican incumbent Kay Bailey Hutchison jumps into the race for governor in 2010.
State Sen. Florence Shapiro of Dallas is considering setting up an exploratory committee to run for the U.S. Senate in anticipation of Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison running for governor.
Republican Gov. Rick Perry siad Friday that he's definitely running for re-election in 2010 and compared himself to the chief executive of a prosperous corporation that is in no need of a change at the top.
Houston lawyer Grant Harpold has announced that he will run to replace outgoing State Sen. Kyle Janek.
When Billy Smith and James Giles were languishing in Texas prisons for crimes they knew they did not commit, they never dreamed that one day they would be standing in the state Senate chamber pleading for reforms.
Texas child welfare officials no longer believe that a woman who gave birth in San Marcos last month while in foster care, after being removed from a polygamist sect's ranch, is a minor.
Hand-scrawled records taken from a polygamist sect are helping untangle the spider-web network of family relationships at the Yearning For Zion ranch, where some husbands had more than a dozen wives.
Terry Secrest lies awake at night, thinking about the women and children of Texas' now-famed polygamist sect.
John Kight is determined to get out the word that Child Protective Services in Texas is out of control.
State officials announced Tuesday that a woman from a polygamist sect who gave birth April 29 is an adult, giving 26 other women who say they are adults hope that their claims will be heard.
A state requirement that children in foster care be inoculated against disease has prompted another round of headaches for lawyers who represent 464 children taken from a polygamist ranch last month.
Mental health workers sent to emergency shelters in San Angelo last month to help care for the hundreds of women and children removed from a polygamist sect's West Texas ranch have sharply criticized the Child Portective Services operation, telling their governing board it unnecessarily traumatized the kids.
